First applied to a Santa Fe locomotive in the late 1930s ... Arkansas-Oklahoma and Great Western Railway in Canada, which acquired B40-8Ws. Along with the large number of C40-8Ws off BNSF's ...

General Electric broke into the domestic road-switcher locomotive market over six decades ago with its U25B model in 1961.

These five traits of the Western Pacific Railroad show a small Class I railroad in the western U.S. that stood tall during ...